[278] Ibn Hisham, p. 554.
[279] The Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, pp. 148 & 149, foot-note.
[280] The Life of Mahomet, by Sir W. Muir, Vol. IV, page 308.
[281] The tradition that Mohammad had gone to Bani Nazeer asking their aid in defraying a certain price of blood, and they attempted upon his life (Muir, III, 208-209) as related by Ibn Is-hak (in Ibn Hisham, page 652) is a Mursal (vide Zoorkánee, Part II, page 95), and consequently was not current in the Apostolic Age.
[282] Ibn Ockba, an earliest biographer of Mohammad, died 140, says,—the cause of the expedition against the Bani Nazeer was this: that they had instigated the Koreish to fight against Mohammad, and had reconnoitred the weak points of Medina. Ibn Mardaveih Abd-bin-Hameed, and Abdu Razzak have related traditions to the effect that, after the event of Badr, the Koreish had written to the Jews of Medina to make war upon Mohammad, and the Bani Nazeer had resolved to break the compact. Vide Zoorkánee, Part II, pp, 96-97.
[283] Compare Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, pp. 213 and 302, foot-note.
[284] Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, p. 44.
[285] Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, p. 46, foot-note.
[286] The verses of the Koran are given below:
10. "O Believers! when believing women come over to you as refugees, then make trial of them. God best knoweth their faith; but if ye have also ascertained their faith, let them not go back to the infidels; they are not lawful for them, nor are the unbelievers lawful for these women. But give them back what they have spent. No crime shall it be in you to marry them, provided you give them their dowers. Do not retain a right in the infidel women, and demand back what you have spent and let them demand back what they have spent. This is the ordinance of God which He ordaineth among you: and God is Knowing, Wise."